Ally Carter Quotes

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.

It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.

Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.

My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

I remember being wise beyond my years when I was little.

I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth; Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.

I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the incidents that I caused were not funny... Youth is wasted on the young. It is better to have the wisdom of an old man in a young body... I was a bit foolish and teased people, trying to be funny.

When I said, 'I'm only 19, but my mind is old' - at that time, when I said that line, I was 18.

One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you're young, you think everything has to be binary, as that's exactly how you feel at that age.

You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.